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After all, its all about the Quality. Software Testing Studio is an attempt to share some incredible knowledge from industry leaders & experts, which should be helpful for anybody to start his/her career in ‘Software Testing’ or to progress it further. Apart from the technical nitty-gritties, one can also find some intellectual posts by industry experts sharing their Wisdom.

Automation testing is a concept that is heavily marketed today. There has been a real convergence of tools and approaches in automation in recent years. It’s increasingly considered as integral to project delivery, rather than something that exists to cover business-as-usual regression testing after project completion. Faster releases, increased test coverage, frequent test execution, faster feedback to development team, just to name a few are being counted as some of the Test automation benefits. Automation is being portrayed as the silver-bullet in testing technology. But everything is not so ideal. Not every organization (or client) is reaping the actual benefits of Test automation. Certain Automation testing myths must be addressed in order to correctly apply it in the most effective & efficient manner. In this article we shall examine some of the most common automation testing myths and how these prevent organizations from succeeding in Test automation.

Most of us have had an argument with friends or colleagues about which route is fastest from home to office or vice-versa. How’d you settle that bet? Yeah! Test it out. Leave the same place at the exact same time, via separate routes, and find out whose way is the best. Hope you got a brief idea about AB testing 😉 which is used by today’s designers & marketers to gain insight into visitor behavior and to increase conversion rate. Though one of the easiest and most effective technique for optimization, A/B testing is still not as common as Internet marketing subjects as SEO, Web analytics and usability. People just aren’t as aware of it. Let’s explore more about AB Testing.

In software testing, it is most important to measure the quality, cost and effectiveness of the project and the processes. Without measuring these, project can’t be completed successfully. The goal of testing is to determine if the requirements are met. During the course of testing, we find defects, or instances where the software does not meet requirements. Hence, in the area of software testing metrics, there has been abundant work in analyzing defects via different Defect metrics.

There is no such statement as ‘I am now prepared for the interview‘. When facing a Testing interview no matter how many interview questions and answers you have gone through – there is always more to read 🙂 Continuing on our Testing Interview questions series, let’s see some more interesting FAQs…

As discussed in our earlier article Manual vs. Automation Testing – on a high level there are basically two methods to complete the software verification & validation – Manual and Automation testing. Each testing method has its pros and cons but the truth is that regardless of which side of the fence you sit on (manual vs. automated), the argument is largely irrelevant; to achieve high quality software and reduced time to market both methodologies are essential. Let’s explore the remaining key consideration…

Software testing, though complex, is an integral part of any successful software project. On a high level there are basically two methods to complete the software verification & validation – Manual and Automated testing. While both types of testing are beneficial to web application development, there has been a plethora of speculation on whether software testing should be done manually or be automated. Creation of excellent software demands effective and timely quality testing; and in these times of production on the go, the debate continues on the purpose and efficiency of manual vs. automation testing. Each testing method has its pros and cons but the truth is that regardless of which side of the fence you sit on (manual vs. automated), the argument is largely irrelevant; to achieve high quality software and reduced time to market both methodologies are essential. Let’s explore the 19 key consideration…

How do you measure your car’s performance? Or how do you know that it needs a service? Yeah! We have different criteria to measure its health – the mileage, kilometers run, engine & brake oil, etc. For example your car needs a service if its weekly mileage is less than the ideal mileage recommended by the manufacturer. Right? Similarly for any process to be successful in the long run we need some measurements (or metrics). In this article we will learn about Software Testing metrics and how it helps to keep track of Software Test efforts.

Enterprise mobility is a hot topic; every time we turn around another company is in the news. “Going mobile” seems to be the mantra of modern day enterprises. Mobility offers huge opportunities & benefits for Enterprises. Continuing on my previous post “Understanding Enterprise Mobility” let’s have a closer look as to why it’s so important for Enterprises to adopt Mobility? Why is Enterprise Mobility so popular, and what can it do for your Enterprise?

Load Multiplier is a highly scalable testing solution catering to needs of global customers in areas of Web, Custom protocols, HTTP, SIP, WebRTC, RTP, SRTP, JSON, XML, STUN / TURN / ICE and few more. It supports any text / binary based protocol testing. Additionally Load Multiplier can act as wrapper over any software and brings on large number of such instances to simulate a real field scenario.

The amount of data that’s being created and stored on a global level is almost inconceivable, and it just keeps growing. The world’s technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s. Data is everywhere – Documents, Smart appliances, Social networks, devices, Internet, sensors, etc. That means there’s even more potential to glean key insights from business information. But how? What actually is Big Data? What does that mean for businesses? Let’s explore…

Different browsers render applications differently, so web applications need to be able to detect on which browser they are running and adjust their app code accordingly. Successfully testing all browsers and all versions are no small feat which is exactly why Sauce Labs built their solution on Selenium. To enable QA teams to execute Selenium based automation suites on multiple permutations, operating systems, and versions, for multiple browsers and browser versions.

At first glance, this seems like we’re done and this is the perfect solution to achieve complete application matrix coverage. Unfortunately, nothing is that simple, and upon digging deeper, it is apparent that not all environments are available for certification. You will have some critical use case gaps, there’s no way around it. So what are they and how do you get around them?

User stories and Use cases are both used to document the requirements. They both capture features of the system. They’re both used by the development team to construct the best solution. They can be used to organize and categorize requirements. And they can be used as references during testing to ensure that the requirements have been met. While user stories and use cases are similar, they also differ in substantial ways. The difference can be challenging to understand and explain, especially if your team is making a transition from a Waterfall software development environment to Agile and Scrum. Each serves a distinct purpose, and they both have their place on a well-run software project. We will try and cover User story vs Use case in this article…

In earlier post, we learnt how to replicate (or automate) keyboard and mouse actions in Selenium Webdriver. Selenium Webdriver provides an Advanced User Interaction API (including Actions class) which facilitate user actions to be performed in an application, i.e. users can use this API to simulate keyboard and mouse actions in Selenium Webdriver. In this tutorial we will see how to simulate Double click event in Selenium Webdriver using Actions class.

Continuing on our previous article on Verification & Validation – we know that they are independent procedures that are used together for checking that a product, service, or system meets requirements and specifications and that it fulfills its intended purpose. Verification involves all the static testing techniques whereas Validation is more of Dynamic Software testing. But what is Dynamic testing? Dynamic as in lively and active. And when do you think a software is active? Yeah! When users are actually using it.

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Software Testing Studio is an attempt to share some incredible knowledge from industry leaders & experts, which should be helpful for anybody to start his/her career in ‘Software Testing’ or to progress it further. Apart from the technical nitty-gritties, one can also find some intellectual posts by industry experts sharing their Wisdom.